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How Your Webpack Source Maps Are Leaking Production Secrets


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Lucas and Luna reveal how misconfigured source maps in production builds leak internal code paths, API endpoints, and even credentials to anyone who opens browser dev tools. They walk through a real incident where a major e-commerce site exposed its entire internal admin panel structure via a .map file served from their CDN. The episode covers how to audit your own source map exposure, the difference between hidden-source-map and nosources-source-map, and why Webpack's default settings are dangerously permissive. You'll learn a single-line config change that stops the leak cold, plus how to verify the fix with curl. No scaremongering — just concrete steps to lock down what should never leave your build server.

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